Today’s Headlines

8:49 AM PST on January 11, 2023

Amtrak temporarily suspends service between LA, San Luis Obispo due to fallen trees, potential landslides (Spectrum)
Storm damage affects Sacramento light rail (Fox40)
Governor Newsom's proposed budget:
- a "reversal of fortune" (CalMatters)
- cuts to come from climate programs, transportation (CalMatters, SF Chronicle, OC Register)
- Maybe the feds will come through with money (San Francisco Standard)
- or cap-and-trade (Carbon Pulse)
Spy tech industry marketing to landlords as a way to evict tenants, raise rents (Vice)
Congestion pricing impacts people differently, depending on income (SSTI)

More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF

Streetsblog California editor Melanie Curry has been thinking about transportation, and how to improve conditions for bicyclists, ever since commuting to school by bike long before bike lanes were a thing. She was Managing Editor at the East Bay Express, editor of Access Magazine for the University of California Transportation Center, and earned her Masters in City Planning from UC Berkeley.

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